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archi42 on March 5, 2018 | parent | context | favorite | on: Open-sourcing a 10x reduction in Apache Cassandra ...

Good memory management is important for a high performance, low latency DBMS. I don't see how getting rid of GC is bad engineering practice. If a tool is not well suited for a problem, use another tool. Could you please explain your opinion?

//Edit: removed 2nd part, which wasn't really that important anyway...

tibbetts on March 6, 2018 [–]

That might be an argument for not using Cassandra. It’s a pretty big leap to reimpmenting half of Cassandra in c++.

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